Chairman shelby and his staff for letting us try this and see how this kind of information gathering works for appropriators. Its not a markup. There will be no voting today, but were going to get some really important information. Yesterday, the new coronavirus cases passed 50,000 for the first time, making it a single day record. This morning, 128,000 americans have died and nearly 2. 7 million have tested positive for covid19. Of course, the thoughts of myself and everyone on this committee are with those individuals and those families whove been affected. I called this hearing really to look at an update on the efforts that the administrations put together and, frankly members of this committee were very involved in to see if we couldnt establish a new way to look at responding to pandemics. I think we have the chance to actually write a new important chapter in what that response looks like. Developing the right vaccine, the right therapeutics, the right testing is important. And
Senator blunt the appropriation subcommittee on labor, health and Human Services, education and related agencies will come together. Im glad to be here this morning with my colleagues, some offices or from some other location. This is the first appropriations hearing being held in person and virtually and want to thank chairman shelby and his staff for letting us try this and see how this kind of information gathering works for appropriators. Its not a markup. There will be no voting today, but were going to get some really important information. Yesterday, the new coronavirus cases passed 50,000 for the first time, making it a single day record. This morning, 128,000 americans have died and nearly 2. 7 million have tested positive for covid19. Of course, the thoughts of myself and everyone on this committee are with those individuals and those families whove been affected. I called this hearing really to look at an update on the efforts that the administrations put together and, frank
Quorum call quorum call the presiding officer the senator for ohio. Mr. Brown i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Brown right now, at this moment, thousands of u. A. W. Workers in ohio, in places like the chevrolet plant in the cleveland area, the transmission plant in toledo, the plant in defiance, ohio, all over the country are going without their paychecks, without their Health Insurance to demand that General Motors respect the work they do to make their company successful. In a nutshell, workers are fed up. More and more of them are beginning to see that unions are the best way to make their voices heard. For too long, General Motors hasnt listened. Auto workers are the engine behind g. M. s success. G. M. Wouldnt be making a dime in profit without the workers who actually make their cars and trucks. Back up for a moment, mr. President. Think about whats happened to General Motors, and you have you have auto worker
Whether jay powell will cut Interest Rates further. And big earnings on deck, disney and wynn after the bell joining us courtney. Tell us how youve navigated the last 24 hours. You know, its been really, really interesting when you look at where the vix has been in august, were hitting 25 i think in july we ended around 12 that volatility is incredibly interesting. For someone like me thats looking to buy positions on the dip that i think are quality positions to buy and hold, it was a really good time in my opinion to do that interestingly enough on our desk at Loop Capital Markets we saw a tremendous amount of low, probably in the overnight markets, probably the most active weve seen all year. Buying or selling interestingly enough, buying. Some very balanced program bus we also saw a number of our fundamental clients buying in developed markets and a little bit of selling or less buying, well say, in some of the emerging markets so were starting to see some of that flight to quality
The next pandemic. Hopefully its not the next pandemic right here. You might think that the Natural History museum is not the best place to have a meeting like this. I would suggest that the Natural History museum is the best placed at the meeting like this. This museum is the largest Natural Museum and has 145 million objects. I say that objects whatever but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last 300 years and preserving those objects in museums and this is the place where we have what we know about planet earth so the records have collect and over the expansion of humans. In any given year, 400 phd is working behind the scenes. Last year, over 400 new species were described. At the same time, we welcome 6 million visitors. Most of those visitors are tourists which means the next year is a different 6 million so in a decade you might get as many as 50 Million People in this building. We live in Interesting Times with human population is growing. There are so many thi